Three motors make the chair rock and roll, and speakers are placed right behind the head. The key, though, is how closely the game is synced to the experience. High-speed turns are particularly excellent—you feel the car struggling to hang onto the road and hear the squeak as the tires just barely begin to skid outwards. Leave the road, intentionally or not, and you feel the cobblestones or dirt beneath the tires.

What's bad? Assuming you're either rich or misguided enough to spend 15 grand on a gaming controller, you'll find that only one game currently is coded to send the GP-100 the necessary data. D-Box engineers say they're working with gaming companies to get 20 more titles ready in 2007. Then again, even with a single game, it'll take the rest of CES for me to tire of this high-priced toy. —Jerry Beilinson